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A Stochastic Approximation for Fully Nonlinear Free Boundary Parabolic Problems

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  • Erhan Bayraktar
  • Arash Fahim

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We present a stochastic numerical method for solving fully non-linear free boundary problems of parabolic type and provide a rate of convergence under reasonable conditions on the non-linearity.

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  • Erhan Bayraktar & Arash Fahim, 2011. "A Stochastic Approximation for Fully Nonlinear Free Boundary Parabolic Problems," Papers 1109.5752, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2013.
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